The moral and medical aspects of donating and sharing oocytes

Background: Applying therapeutic reproductive methods has been developing increasingly in Islamic countries in accordance with Islamic rules. One of these methods is sharing oocytes in which half of a woman s oocytes is donated to an infertile woman. The present study aimed to examine the moral and medical aspects of donating and sharing oocytes.Methods: Through searching key words such as oocyte donation, share, and receivers, woman s infertility, assisted reproductive technology, moral and medical aspects in the international database in searching engines such as Pubmed, SID, and Google Scholar the searching was completed. 50 articles were extracted; 15 articles were omitted and finally data was extracted from 35 articles from 2000 to 2016.Result: The findings revealed that sharing oocytes has some advantages than sharing oocytes, though it has some shortcomings too. Stimulating to ovulate is through harmonic drugs which have side effects such as cancer or life-threatening cases like ovarian hyper stimulation syndrome. Moreover, the risk of side effects increases during several therapeutic cycles. The most important concern is about the quality of donated oocytes and the likelihood of hereditary disease contagion. It is possible to examine the donator and her children while it is not possible to get information about the woman s children who shared oocytes because she is infertile too.Conclusion: It is concluded that oocytes share is moral because the donator herself is infertile and is not under the treatment merely for another person. Considering the risks of infertility drugs, it seems that oocytes share is better that oocytes donation.

کلیدواژه ها:

Assisted reproductive technology ، Medical morality ، Oocytes receivers ، Oocytes share ، Woman s infertility ، Oocyte donate